Orthodox Christian art has almost nothing in common with its Catholic and Protestant counterparts despite the shared ...

The flatness of the image, its stillness ... “The Byzantine Orthodox iconography is not just an ‘art,’ it’s a sacred art,” said iconographer Theodoros Papadopoulos.

Orthodox Christians use art to make their services more meaningful ... by St. Sofroni of Siberia in the 19th Century. Icons, holy pictures, are also on display. They are meant to express the ...

Thus, Orthodox art is in some ways a paradox ... but some of them are self-portraits, striking images of herself in a traditional headscarf, eyes wide and piercing—rare in a conservative ...

Jo Coleman has joined our search for Divine Art and has ... at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in Stevenage. An 'icon' is a religious picture used to depict a divine image or story of Jesus ...

In one image, women tread the beach in stocking feet and sweaters, wading ankle deep with small children while bare-chested men splash in deeper water. In the foreground, a non-Orthodox girl in ...

The main entrance to Christ the Savior Orthodox Cathedral in Miami Lakes looks unassuming. But inside there’s a treasure trove of religious art ... religious images, or “Visio divina.” ...

whose picture was shown between two giant images of an ancient Orthodox icon on Tuesday, warned the West ahead of elections in March 2024 that any foreign meddling in Russia would be considered an ...

Putin. By Valerie Hopkins and Oleg Matsnev This image of Aleksei A. Navalny’s body in a coffin, at a church in southern Moscow, conveys many of the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church ...